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BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

ominous: Americans have collectively spent >$100 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1 compared to the same period a year ago. $109.2 billion through the end of today thus far, and currently adding ~$730 million more each day.

If you want to know to what Donald will say tomorrow, listen to what the Kremlin says today.

NEW: The Houthis are setting conditions to establish the Bab al Mandeb Strait as an Axis of Resistance-controlled body of water as part of the Axis of Resistance’s effort to assert control over regional oil exports. (1/5) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...

Holds up

You all know I hate it when my trolls claim the US promised that countries would be forbidden from joining NATO, thus anti-imperialistically limiting their sovereignty. I have to post this video of Gorbachev saying it's rubbish.

The US-Canada Trainwreck and the Limits of American Power talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...

Only a shithole country would betray the Canadians.

🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.

8 years after scrapping the Iran nuclear deal gotten with global economic isolation. 5 months after bombing, which failed. 2 months after post-bombing economic isolation failed, leading to an MOU favoring Iran. And weeks after scrapping that to bomb again. We have a new plan: economic isolation.

Eric Edelman: "Hegseth interfering with promotion lists [means] if you curry favor with political masters and tell them what they want to hear, you get promoted. It strains out officers of character and integrity willing to tell them what they may not want to hear." youtu.be/YnLOlq4SV00?...

Perfect summary

Live at noon (or watch or listen later at your convenience): How Much Harm is Hegseth Doing? Retired Col. Bree Fram discusses the damage Hegseth is inflicting on the U.S. military, and how she was forced out of the military after 20+ years of service. www.youtube.com/live/ILBD6Ad...

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Alex Jones (1974-2026) was the biggest supporter of iodine. So why did Big Iodine blow him up?

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

Brandon Herrera, Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Texas, called babies "cum trophies." Do congressional Republicans agree? Our Brendan Hartnett went to Capitol Hill to find out if "cum trophies" is just a Texas thing.

A Ukrainian F-16 has shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet in a dogfight for the first time. US General Dan Caine reported this during a hearing in the US Senate.

Was a national civics competition for high-school kids … rigged?

So much winning: A US service member was killed today in Iraq, and more remains were found in Jordan. A source tells Washington Post the US stockpile of munitions is insufficient to safely sustain operations and “I don’t think the White House is aware of that.” wapo.st/4puMk0b

56 years ago I created a fake macho character that spoofed macho characters of the 50’s. Like many things, this performance art got somewhat misinterpreted over time. But while Pete Hegseth, Joe Rogan & Donald Trump make a mockery of masculinity, I thought you should know that.

The Odyssey is pulling $260 million this weekend, well on its way to becoming the biggest movie of the year. It has a 95%/97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone loves it. Please enjoy this exchange.

To anyone considering helping President Trump interfere with our election or our count: You will be prosecuted. That’s why I’m moving forward with new legislation that would make it a FELONY to seize ballots before the vote has been certified by state and county officials.

An analysis of the Supreme Court’s 2024–2025 term shows its transparency problem is getting worse. Americans deserve an open and honest high court. bit.ly/4eXCGQi

Our News Media needs to get it together….

Abolish ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/o...

ICE contractor apparently got mad at protestor outside ICE facility he worked at and opened fire with personal firearm. Arrested, facing charges of assault and attempted murder. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

"We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."--Abraham Lincoln (1864) www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

@janetmillsforme.bsky.social actually fought the “fascist in chief” and won. Is this not what Platner stans are running around the internet saying they want him for? I guess it’s #WhitemenAtaLLCost 😒 www.advocate.com/news/janet-m...

"Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat"

It took a team of AP reporters about 2 days to get this information. The same information ICE could have gotten before they hired the man who said he shot and killed an immigrant in Maine.

everything is gender

This full clip speaks to me. Pocan knows what he's talking about with respect to small businesses because it's his area of expertise outside of Congress. I know because it's also *my* area of expertise. Having representatives who share your lived experience is a very important piece of governance.

Hungary’s new government also passed this constitutional amendment to “remove Constitutional Court judges who are over the age of 70.”

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Retired Atlanta Police Sergeant T.M. Austin (Sex Crimes Unit): Mike Collins voted against releasing the Epstein files to protect powerful elites instead of our children. Jon Ossoff is going after the powerful and passed a law to stop child sex trafficking. We need Jon in the Senate.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

On the same day Graham Platner announced his withdrawal from the Maine Senate race under Democratic Party pressure, Colorado MAGAs nominated for governor a man who won't reveal how many people he's killed, conducts exorcisms by phone and claims he can call in Air Force airstrikes

Trying to do a statewide caucus with one or two weeks to spin it up is nuts. Doing a pop-up convention is possible but still a huge pointless hassle, all you're doing is effectively gathering a slightly larger number of the same people who chose and are represented by the state committee members.

It is not undemocratic, not even a little bit, for a candidate to voluntarily drop out of a race and be replaced by their party using the legal procedure that exists for that purpose. Don't concede the premise as if you have to dress it up somehow and apologize for a party being a party.

This is one of the things they legally exist to do, and a state party committee with ~100 people on it is not some tiny smoke-filled room of party bosses. It's not like a convention would produce a meaningfully different result anyway, it's the same set of party activists and minor officials.

Turns out the guy with the massive Nazi chest tattoo is a bad dude. If only there was some sort of sign.